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[2020-06-09 15:37:08] [Robert Garry] "Is he just counting his cash at home?" Yes $30M IPO several years back, plus all the "PREDICT" money - subtract some minor fraction of that to buy off whatever shares Fair "owned." Wolfe has been paying himself an executive salary north of $1M per year since at least 2006 plus lucrative bonuses. Little known fact - Fair and Wolfe tried to recruit me back in 2008 - one of the selling points - win a grant get a 20% bonus off of the gross. So $3M dollar grant a kool $600K bonus :parrot:. I still remember a comment Eric Lander made about this several years back. Legal maybe - ethical> you decide. IMO Meta's models are pure bunk - about like the whole Global Virome Project sham [BTW I think that pic is pretty much as sham too - just my opinion]. But, you know that the only way that a thug makes money is through "insurance." Ask most of the store owners in any ethnic section of any big city. It was inevitable that Wolfe would find this path. [2020-06-09 15:38:55] [Kristian Andersen] "... win a grant get a 20% bonus off of the gross". Holy shit, Bob - we could have retired by now! And live in luxury that is. [2020-06-09 15:42:38] [Robert Garry] Too boring - yes Nathan does have a yacht- he and his friends sail around - sounds dreadful to me. [2020-06-09 15:59:59] [Kristian Andersen] I don't need a yacht - a little house, a yard, and my Jeep and I'm a happy man. Maybe throw in a lake and a mountain too and I'm a very happy man. [2020-06-09 16:05:04] [Robert Garry] Good man - you get to keep doing real science - more rewarding. Just consider that COVID-19 is going to trigger huge payouts to whomever was "smart" enough to insure with Wolfe's backers in the reinsurance "business." I guessing a pretty stiff test of the Meta business model - stayed tuned. [2020-06-09 16:17:22] [Eddie Holmes] Amazing stuff that Bob. BS wins. Again. I don't need a yacht either. Happy at home with the family and the pet pangolins. [2020-06-09 19:32:05] [Kristian Andersen] I'm thinking mink. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/coronavirus-rips-through-dutch-mink-farms-triggeringculls-prevent-human-infections [2020-06-09 19:55:38] [Eddie Holmes] I am thinking that as well... [2020-06-09 20:28:31] [Eddie Holmes] BBC on the traffic data theory: "One expert at the Scripps Research Translational Institute said the research method used in the study was "very indirect and imprecise"." [2020-06-09 20:29:30] [Eddie Holmes] Was that you Kristian? [2020-06-09 20:39:55]